Matt Sweeney Special Effects Inc.

Special Effects rigging equipment for the entertainment industry. At Matt Sweeney SPFX Inc., we manufacture, sell, and rent equipment of the finest quality. Our sheave blocks, snatch blocks, pulleys, quick releases (trips or release hooks), flying suits and hardware are widely used by motion picture and television special effects people, stunt performers, theatrical riggers and circus riggers, theme parks, amusement parks, and magicians worldwide. Corporate and Government testing facilities use our quick release latches and other equipment for impact and drop tests. We also make glass breakers, trunnion guns, trunnion gun molds, and select fire bullet effect capsule guns (also known as the Sweeney Gun). In addition, we sell reusable cable cutters (by Movieworks), black stainless steel shackles, Sorbothane, black ball bearings, ground glass balls and many other items of usefulness. We have a large selection of rental equipment, specializing in flying and unusual effects. We have parallelogram flying rigs with a comprehensive assortment of attachments, flying suits, and flying track setups. We have earthquake shakers, pneumatic car launchers, air bearings, small wave makers, low pressure ratchets and lots more stuff too numerous to list.

We (Matt Sweeney and Lucinda Strub) started Matt Sweeney SPFX Inc. in 1984 to build bullet hit effect capsule guns and received an Academy Technical Achievement Award for the capsule guns in 1987. Since then, we have expanded our product line and are always striving for excellence. Our equipment is of the highest quality; it is user friendly, lightweight, durable and attractive. We fabricate our equipment on CNC (Computer Numerical Control) machinery to assure accuracy, strength and consistency. Knowledge gained by 68 years combined experience in the entertainment industry drives the design of these products. Equipment design input not only comes from our own extensive use, it also comes from a wide range of special effects, stunt, theatrical and other entertainment professionals. Instead of boring you with a giant list of shows and people who use our equipment, we invite entertainment industry professionals to ask their associates about our products, since happily they are in use in most major motion pictures, television and theatrical events worldwide.